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Families in the Global South Aren’t Beta Testers: How Parenting Technology is Falling Short, and What Funders Can Do About It
After over a decade running in-person and app-based services for children and parents in Bangladesh, Zillul Karim at ToguMogu and Light of Hope argues that parenting technology is failing families in the Global South. He highlights three structural blind spots in the parenting technology sector, exploring their consequences for children and parents, and proposes some ways funders, governments and development organizations can move the industry toward higher standards.
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- Education, Technology
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Analysis: Why AI Carbon Footprinting Tools are Prone to Misleading Results
"The automation of the normally tedious process of creating product carbon footprints (PCFs) is one of the more tantalizing sustainability applications of artificial intelligence. But users of these services should treat the results with caution, suggests a study from researchers at Watershed, a carbon accounting platform."
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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- Global
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78% of South African SMBs Encountered Cybersecurity Incidents Over the Past Year, Kaspersky Research Shows
Kaspersky, a global cybersecurity and digital privacy company, surveyed IT security specialists across SMBs and enterprises in 18 countries* to provide insights into the most critical risks facing businesses today.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Oracle Plans to Cut 3,000 India Jobs the Same Month Microsoft Puts 500 on Notice
Oracle is reportedly moving to cut close to 3,000 jobs in India around September 1 or 15, right as its new fiscal quarter opens, following a fiscal-year headcount drop of 21,000 that the company partly blamed on AI adoption. Microsoft, meanwhile, has put roughly 500 India employees, about 2% of its India workforce, on performance improvement plans, giving the AI-versus-headcount story its clearest real numbers yet.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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The Risks of Saying No to AI in Global Development: How Organisations Can Move Past Restrictions to Provide Responsible Guidance
In many global development and social impact organisations, the use cases of artificial intelligence are not based on formal policies or other top-down guidance. Instead, according to Loksan Harley at Homelands AI, staff at these organisations are using publicly available AI tools to perform ad hoc workarounds, often with little sense of how outputs should be checked, where their own human judgement must be used, and what types of training data should never be uploaded. Meanwhile, some leaders are embracing staff experimentation in the absence of an organisational policy and simply hoping the question resolves itself, while others are restricting or even banning the use of these tools. He argues that saying no to AI keeps staff's use of this technology invisible — the one condition under which none of its risks can be managed — and proposes a more responsible and realistic approach to AI adoption.
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- Technology
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Analysis: AI Safety Is Designed in the West, and Failing Users Everywhere
English-focused guardrails fail in local dialects, causing dangerous medical misdiagnoses and denied public services.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Africa Smartphone Market Set for Sharp 2026 Decline
African smartphone shipments are forecast to decline by 26% this year, according to new research from Omdia, as rising costs place pressure on entry-level smartphone availability and pricing.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Growth Without Work: The Human Cost of the AI Revolution
'In an excerpt from his book “The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI,” writer Jibu Elias examines the technology’s impact on jobs.'
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- Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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